DPT: Informatics (MSc) (Part-time) - 2 Years (PTMSCINFMT3P)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2

Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: September

Before making your course choices, make sure you have discussed them with your Personal Tutor.

During both years of this programme, students are permitted to take a maximum of 30 credits of courses that are below level 11 or not individually listed below.

Compulsory courses

Informatics Research Review

Course options

These are Natural Systems courses at Level 10 and 11 open to taught postgraduate students.

Human-Computer Interaction (Level 11)

Algorithmic Game Theory and its Applications

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Case Studies in Design Informatics 1

The Human Factor: Working with Users

Text Technologies for Data Science

Bioinformatics 1

Natural Computing

Methods for Causal Inference

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These are programming courses at Level 11 open to taught postgraduate students. Note that enrolment in some of these courses may be subject to quotas.

Programming Skills

Introduction to Practical Programming with Objects

Computer Programming for Speech and Language Processing

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These are Machine Learning Foundations and Methods courses at Level 11 open to taught postgraduate students.

Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition

Machine Learning Practical

Introductory Applied Machine Learning

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These are level 11 non AI Foundations Systems and Software courses open to postgraduate students.

Parallel Programming Languages and Systems (Level 11)

Parallel Architectures (Level 11)

Extreme Computing

Secure Programming

Introduction to Quantum Computing

Categories and Quantum Informatics

Formal Verification

Introduction to Modern Cryptography

Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers

Principles and Design of IoT Systems

Software Development

Quantum Cyber Security

Advanced Database Systems

Security Engineering

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These are Informatics and Maths courses at level 10 open to postgraduate students.

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These are courses in all schools other than Informatics, Medicine, Veterinary Studies, or the Centre for Open Learning.

Students may not register for introductory programming courses in other parts of the University unless explicitly listed in the DPT

Year 2 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: September

Before making your course choices, make sure you have discussed them with your Personal Tutor. The dissertation requires a period of full-time study after the Semester 2 exams.

During both years of this programme, students are permitted to take a maximum of 30 credits of courses that are below level 11 or not individually listed below.

Compulsory courses

MSc Dissertation (Informatics)

Must be passed at 50%

Informatics Project Proposal

Course options

These are Natural Systems courses at Level 10 and 11 open to taught postgraduate students.

Human-Computer Interaction (Level 11)

Algorithmic Game Theory and its Applications

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

Case Studies in Design Informatics 1

The Human Factor: Working with Users

Text Technologies for Data Science

Bioinformatics 1

Natural Computing

Methods for Causal Inference

AND

These are programming courses at Level 11 open to taught postgraduate students. Note that enrolment in some of these courses may be subject to quotas.

Programming Skills

Introduction to Practical Programming with Objects

Computer Programming for Speech and Language Processing

AND

These are AI Applications and Paradigms courses at Level 11 open to taught postgraduate students.

Algorithmic Game Theory and its Applications

Computer Graphics (Level 11)

Advanced Vision (Level 11)

Automatic Speech Recognition

Robotics: Science and Systems

Accelerated Natural Language Processing

Image and Vision Computing